The Sun talks to the trees

Lucy Skywalker says: July 30, 2010 at 8:38 pm Hi Tallbloke! Looking at the new study of treering data from Kola, Arctic Russia, http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-07/haog-sor072910.php I’ve just done a comparison of the treering “temperature” reconstruction, with sunspot cycles. http://a.imageshack.us/img827/2556/kolatreesvssolar.gif Clearly there is correlation with the Hale cycle. I’d like to know if this suggests magnetic influences. [...]

Barycentric motion, spacequakes and awkward climate questions

A nice summary article over at American thinker  starting to ask the right sorts of questions. This is progress. The Thunder and the Firecracker Timothy Birdnow Recently, NASA’s THEMIS spacecraft detected a phenomenon that many astronomers had suspected; the spacequake. A spacequake happens when the Earth’s magnetic field is stretched out by the solar wind [...]

John Eggart: Layman’s guide to the greenhouse effect

John Eggert, who is currently discussing some of the more technical aspects of co2 radiative physics with Nasif Nahle on another thread, has kindly sent me some of the material he has written on the greenhouse effect. This article helps us get an overview on the issues. There is also a detailed maths and physics [...]

Gray Stevens: Planetary effects on solar activity

Our friend and regular Gray Stevens has been researching and publishing his observations and ideas on his own site at Jupiters Dance for a long time now. I’m delighted he has asked me to showcase his most recent work here, which investigates planetary harmonics and their possible correlations with solar activity. This is a huge [...]

Nasif Nahle nails the radiative physics of co2

Over on WUWT Nasif Nahle says: July 26, 2010 at 4:52 pm Dear all… I’d like to contribute a little on this issue. First of all, AGW is based on false conceptions and incomplete information about the physics of heat transfer. I don’t understand why AGW proponents take the carbon dioxide as the cause of [...]

New de Jager paper on Solar – Planetary influence

Quantifying and specifying the solar influence on terrestrial surface temperature C. de Jager a, S. Duhau b, B. van Geel c Abbreviated Abstract: This investigation is a follow-up of a paper in which we showed that both major magnetic components of the solar dynamo, viz. the toroidal and the poloidal ones, are correlated with average [...]

*New* Predictions! Page

Be sure to visit regularly. There won’t be any comments direct on the page, but feel free to place predictions you come across or comment on predictions here. I’ll transfer interesting ones to the Predictions! page which you can find on the top links bar or left side links bar under ‘pages’. There are four [...]

Biggest star ever discovered “astonishes scientists”

We seem to get a lot of astonishment from mainstream astrophysicists and cosmologists these days. Presumably because frequently, new data doesn’t fit the model well. From the UK Guardian: Visible-light image of the Tarantula nebula (left), zoomed-in image from the Very Large Telescope (centre), and the R136 cluster in near-infrared (right) with the cluster itself [...]

Nailing the solar activity – global temperature divergence lie

We are frequently told that the Sun can’t be responsible for late C20th warming because temperature has increased while solar activity has dropped from it’s peak in the 1950′s. What a load of rubbish. Solar cycle amplitudes are only part of the story. The cycles in the late C20th were short, ~10 years, and high [...]

Timo Niroma and Ray Tomes on solar cycle lengths and planetary alignments

Veteran solar researcher Timo Niroma  has an elegant and simple analysis on his main sunspots page which neatly shows the bi-modal nature of the solar cycle lengths using ascii art! It’s common knowledge that the average solar cycle length is just over 11 years. What isn’t so well known is that the actual solar cycle [...]